VMware works closely with each of its OEMs to drive towards mutual support of ESX at the time of announcement. As such, these server motherboards are listed in this Systems Compatibility guide for informational purposes only to provide a means for OEM partners of this limited set of VMware ODM partners to verify that the complete server systems they build with these server motherboards, and the exact same set of network and storage I/O devices can also be submitted for support by VMware through VMware's Server Certification Equivalency Tool (SCET). Note to VMware System Builder Partners: VMware supports servers listed as available in 'Mother Board' form factor produced by a limited set of VMware Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) server hardware partners that have been certified by the ODM partner for a given ESX release with a fixed set of network and storage I/O devices populated in a reference server system. All servers are supported in depopulated configuration mode unless noted otherwise via a footnote. In addition, the OEM must support the depopulated Server Configuration.

The depopulated Server Configuration must have at least 2 physical cores. Depopulated Sockets - VMware supports all configurations from 1 socket to N sockets being populated on an N-socket server that is in this Systems Compatibility Guide. If you are having a technical issue with 3rd party HW/SW and it is not found on this list, please refer to our 3rd Party HW/SW support policy at.

Please read KB article 1010716 ( ) for more information. Therefore, health and monitoring information may be incomplete or inaccurate. In addition, many server vendors started implementing some or all VMware specified CIM providers for server manageability. Please see KB article 1003944 ( )for more information.

For proper support of the 64bit Guest Operating Systems, necessary virtualization BIOS settings need to be enabled. If a specific server, storage array, or device is not listed on the Systems Compatibility Guide, please contact the vendor of that hardware to find out the plans for supporting that hardware with VMware vSphere. Our goal is to support a variety of storage and network adapters used as standard options for these platforms as they come to market. Additionally, VMware ESX is tested for compatibility with currently shipping platforms from the major server manufacturers in pre-release testing. VMware ESX is tested for compatibility with a variety of major guest operating systems running in virtual machines.

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